The Forrest City times., 1887-12-31
TELEGRAPHIC BREVTTTES.


 A pure white deer was recently killed in Clinnton County, Pa
 The fire at Holton, Kansas, Friday, destroyed property to the value oi Ss0,00O.
 The New York grand jury has re- fused to find an indictment against Henry S. Ives.
 The United States Pension Office, now located at Topeka, Kansas. will shortly be removed to Leavenworth.
 George Williams, a negro, was hang ed Friday at Montgomery, Alabama, for the murder of fellow-eonvict.
 Three bodies were found under the house of man named Kelly in No Mans Dand. and murder on & large scale is suspected.
 Prosecution of the Indianapolis tally sheet forgers will be actively pushed. in obedience to instructions from Pres tdent Cleveland.
 The deadlock in the Cherokee Ma tion has been broken, the Senate has been organized, and J. B. Mi yes in- stalled as assistant chief.
 MisS WHOoe uiEnJ ITcu a Gin cinnati school caused great sen sation, has been found at Montgomery, Alabama, and will be taken home by her friends.
 Barney Riggs, who was under a life sentence in the Territorial prison of Arizona, has been pardoned by Gov. Zellich as reward for his bravery in saving the life of Prison Superintend- ent Gates.
 Patrick Brennan, track boss on the Central Hudson Railroad, killed his wife at Buffalo, N. r., Tuesday, be. cause she wouldn't rush the growler."
 Mrs. Ellen 0'Neill, widow, and her two children were struck by iocomo- tive on the Hudson River road near Poughkeepsle, N. r., and instantly killed.
 The Turkish Government is ham, pcred for money. Recently body Of marines attempted to force their way into the Sultan's palace to demand their pay back.
 Gen. R. A. Alger of Detroit, Mich., Monday gives about S50,000 worth of Christmas gifts, which include a ton of coal and barrel of flour to all the de- serving poor of the city.
 President Delano of the Wool Crow ers' Association has published an ap- peal to all wool growers to petition Congress not to act in accordance with the Presidents views on the wool question.
 The trial Of the thirty-fve persons implicated in the riot of October, 1886, closed at Phillippopolis, Roumelia. Two were sentenced to death, four to imprisonment, and the rest were ac. quilted.
 George Bolts, colored ex-convict, drew his gun on Officer Hudson at Lincoln, Neb., Monday white being ar rested, but Hudson shot first and lodged ball in Bott's head, which will probably kill>him. Bolts had been a bad man.
 Jerry Hauck, policeman, attempted in citizens dress to force his way into a ball at Eureka Hall, Cincinnati, Sun day morning and was elected. He tried to get back and threateningly used his pistol, whereupon Officer Hee- man shot him fatally.
 It is reported from Philadelphia that Capt. Taylor, of the schooner Kelley, which was picked mp by the schooner Cranmer In a water logged condition, was murdered by his mutinous crew.
 The admission of Utah promises to DC thoroughly ventilated, in Washing ton this winter, as Gov. West is against admission, but A. B. Carlton, one of the Commissioners favors admission.
 A strike in the Reading coal mines and among the freight handlers, has been declared. for the reason that cheap non-union coal-handlers have been em- ployed. The strike may extend over the entire Reading territory.
 ]. F.. Trimble and James A. Ramsey killed each other in Farmerville, Union Parish, La.
 One of the Tompkinsville, (ky.) bank robbers has confessed. ne says the gang robbed the safe and burned the town of Tompkinsvlle, and the bonds were concealed in the basement of a house in Knoxville. The bonds have been recovered. 4s
 Five men, Ellison Hombre. J.Walker. " III. diuldn, iJOSblt hs Hawkins, were killed in boiler ex plosion at Triton, Ga.
 John McCaigherty was torn to pieces in a machine in the Barbour Flax Spin ming Works at Peterson, N. J.
 bomb with a lighted fuse attached was thrown into the residence of Dr. Garfield at st. Austed, Quebec Thurs day. Mrs. Garfield detached the fuse and the bomb did not explode. Her father had been engaged serving pro- cesses for violation of temperance laws and had been threatened with violence.
 The mineral production ofthe United States in lSS6 was S456, ,000, the largest mineral production yet recorded in any country. This was an increase of S27, ,00J, ,00J over 1885. Natural gas consumed was double the amount of 1885. The yalue of the coal displaced by the use of natural gas was about Sl0,000,000.